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Artur Schwarz
Artur Schwarz

Reputation: 41

Changing the text appearance of title bar in android

I am trying to change the text appearance of the title bar im using on my activity. In depth: i want to change the fontFamily to sans-serif-thin.

This is what i tried to do among various other approaches:

<style name="CustomActionBarTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/jammi_red</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/jammi_red_dark</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/jammi_green</item>
    <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/MyActionBar</item>
</style>

<style name="MyActionBar" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <item name="android:titleTextStyle">@style/myTheme.ActionBar.Text</item>
</style>

<style name="myTheme.ActionBar.Text" parent="Base.TextAppearance.AppCompat.Title">
    <item name="android:fontFamily">sans-serif-thin</item>
</style>

Does anyone know what im doing wrong? I'm working on a Nexus 5 with API 21. Minimum API for my App is 16.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 547

Answers (3)

fragon
fragon

Reputation: 3471

This is how I did this in my app. This is part of my MainActivity code:

Typeface face=Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(),"fonts/CustomFont.ttf");
actionBar = getSupportActionBar();
int titleId = getResources().getIdentifier("action_bar_title", "id", "android");
TextView tv = (TextView) findViewById(titleId);
tv.setTypeface(face);

Don't forget to put your .ttf file into the asset folder.

Upvotes: 1

Biu
Biu

Reputation: 1076

You said your minimum sdk level is 16, so do not use the AppCompat package, it is for older versions for backward compatability. Use one of the platform themes such as Theme.Holo.Light.Dark.ActionBar that does have not the AppCompatin it as the parent.

Upvotes: 0

aletede91
aletede91

Reputation: 1166

Try to do it programmatically (put your Typeface file in asset folder), it works for me:

int titleId = getResources().getIdentifier("action_bar_title", "id","android");

TextView yourTextView = (TextView) findViewById(titleId);

private Typeface tfLogo = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "font/Wolf.otf");

yourTextView.setTypeface(tfLogo);

Upvotes: 0

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